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Mississippi Business NewsTue, 26 Sep 2017 19:02:47 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.645828637Corps' work on Steele Bayou project delayed due to high waterhttp://msbusiness.com/2014/11/corps-work-steele-bayou-project-delayed-due-high-water/
http://msbusiness.com/2014/11/corps-work-steele-bayou-project-delayed-due-high-water/#respondThu, 06 Nov 2014 13:46:17 +0000http://msbusiness.com/?p=95830VICKSBURG — The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) Vicksburg District’s work on the Steel Bayou Drainage Structure Outlet Channel Repair Project near the Mississippi Highway 465 bridge is approximately 88 percent complete. Work was delayed because the contractor was unable to move upstream of Highway 465 to complete rock work due to high ...

]]>http://msbusiness.com/2014/11/corps-work-steele-bayou-project-delayed-due-high-water/feed/095830ROSS REILY: EPA should have historical background of Deltahttp://msbusiness.com/2014/10/ross-reily-epa-historical-background-delta/
http://msbusiness.com/2014/10/ross-reily-epa-historical-background-delta/#commentsTue, 28 Oct 2014 19:00:07 +0000http://msbusiness.com/?p=95381 If you first listen to environmentalists and the Environmental Protection Agency as to why they are opposed to the Yazoo Backwater project, they make a pretty compelling argument. The EPA has said the project would have incurred “unacceptable damage to these valuable resources that are used for wildlife, economic and recreational purposes.” In an ...

]]>http://msbusiness.com/2014/10/ross-reily-epa-historical-background-delta/feed/195381Cochran calls on EPA for review of Yazoo Backwater Projecthttp://msbusiness.com/2014/10/cochran-calls-epa-review-yazoo-backwater-project/
http://msbusiness.com/2014/10/cochran-calls-epa-review-yazoo-backwater-project/#commentsMon, 27 Oct 2014 16:27:38 +0000http://msbusiness.com/?p=95336WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) is asking for an independent peer review of the decision that halted completion of the Yazoo Backwater Project, a flood control project for the lower Mississippi Delta. Cochran requested approval for an independent peer review from Gina McCarthy, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), following a ...

]]>http://msbusiness.com/2014/10/cochran-calls-epa-review-yazoo-backwater-project/feed/295336Panel sides with EPA over Yazoo Pump; board mulls another appealhttp://msbusiness.com/2012/03/judge-sides-with-epa-over-yazoo-pump-board-mulls-another-appeal/
http://msbusiness.com/2012/03/judge-sides-with-epa-over-yazoo-pump-board-mulls-another-appeal/#commentsWed, 07 Mar 2012 13:18:00 +0000http://msbusiness.com/?p=53561NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court panel sided yesterday with the Environmental Protection Agency over its 2008 veto of a $220 million flood control project near the Yazoo River in the south Mississippi Delta. >> RELATED: EPA admits it has no experts on Yazoo Pump Project. The Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners sued the ...

]]>http://msbusiness.com/2012/03/judge-sides-with-epa-over-yazoo-pump-board-mulls-another-appeal/feed/153561Pump or not to pump?http://msbusiness.com/2010/02/pump-or-not-to-pump/
http://msbusiness.com/2010/02/pump-or-not-to-pump/#respondSun, 14 Feb 2010 06:01:17 +0000http://msbusiness.com/?p=19124Controversial pump could have saved farmers thousands of acres of flooded farmland last year As the proposed Yazoo Backwater Project, aimed at controlling floods in the South Delta, works its way through the legal system, farmers are calculating their losses last year caused by the record rainfall. Would the project’s proposed pumping station have saved ...